Melissa D. Lane, Ph.D.

Senior Scientist

Mars Odyssey THEMIS Participating Scientist (NASA)

Planetary Science Institute [PSI home page] 1700 E. Fort Lowell Rd, Suite 106 Tucson, AZ 85719 Phone: 520.622.6300

Mars, the Ocher (not Red) Planet!

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Synthetic Olivine Emissivity Spectra Available:

Please, when using these synthetic olivine spectra, reference the following:

Lane, M. D. et al., Midinfrared spectroscopy of synthetic olivines: Thermal emission, specular and diffuse reflectance, and attenuated total reflectance studies of forsterite to fayalite, Journal of Geophysical Research, 116, doi:10.1029/2010JE003588, 2011.

Click here for spectral data.


Sulfate Emissivity Spectra Available:

Please, when using these sulfate data, reference the following:

Lane, M. D., Midinfrared emission spectroscopy of sulfate and sulfate-bearing minerals, American Mineralogist, 92,1-18, 2007. For more information about this paper, please click on my "publications" link below.

Click here for sulfate spectral data OR visit the ASU thermal emission spectral library where they are also located.

The spectral library at ASU where I house my spectra, and the spectral libraries of my scientific collaborators may be visited through the following table of links:




Spectral Libraries
Visible/near Infrared Reflectance (SETI)	Thermal Emissivity (ASU)
Mössbauer (Mt. Holyoke College)	: *

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To retrieve other data, click here.

Here is a list of my publications.

My geological research concerns thermal emission spectroscopy and its potential for mineral identification. The minerals I am studying include oxides, carbonates, and sulfates, phosphates, and chlorides.

To learn more about thermal infrared (vibrational) spectroscopy and how the ASU TES lab is gearing their research toward understanding the surface composition of Mars, visit the Thermal Emission Spectrometer (TES) Home Page.

The TES instrument is orbiting Mars aboard the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft . Launch occurred on November 7, 1996. The spacecraft arrived at Mars on September 11, 1997.

The THEMIS instrument is orbiting Mars aboard the 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft . Launch occurred on April 7, 2001. The spacecraft arrived at Mars on October 23, 2001.





Miscellaneous Junk

All men dream; but not equally. Those that dream at night
in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that
it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men;
for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible. -Tennyson




A Few Thoughts (none of which are original to me):

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges in it.

If a hermit crab doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?

War doesn't determine who is right, war determines who is left.